And welcome to an impromptu edition of the Hank Unplug podcast.

Remember, on this podcast, we are committed to equipping people to always be ready to give

an answer a reason for the hope that lies within them,

with gentleness and with respect.

Today I want to talk about a subject that has enormous import.

It really involves what happens to us when we die.

What happens to us when Christ returns a second time? What happens in eternity?

The subject that I'm addressing today is the subject that is now being referenced by influencers and celebrities, but in a very bad fashion.

I want to talk about annihilationism and answer the question as to whether or not it is taught in the Bible or countenanced by the mind of the church.

Now I know that annihilationism is a large word, but it's a very simple view.

In the annihilationist view, But it's a very simple view.

In the annihilationist view, no one suffers for eternity in hell.

In fact, according to annihilationism, there is no hell.

Instead, those who persist until death in rejecting God's gracious gift of salvation,

they are snuffed out of existence entirely.

So just as universalism is the rage and liberal Christianity, so too annihilationism is gaining huge momentum in conservative Christian circles.

And that is particularly among influencers and celebrities, many of whom correctly

cite John Stott as an apologist for annihilationism, but then gratuitously throw in such

venerable church fathers as St. Athanasius or even Ironaeus in order to bolster their case.

Now, it is true that John Stott did defend annihilationism.

I talked to him about it before he died. But Athanasius most certainly did not.

In fact, it was Athanasius who memorably retorted that for the good there is laid up the heavenly kingdom, but for those who practice evil,

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